This ComputerWeekly.com guide walks you through all the key areas of flash storage: All-flash, hybrid or PCIe; MLC vs SLC; speccing for performance and troubleshooting flash

Flash storage is the big news in storage arrays. Driven by the large and unpredictable workloads of server and desktop virtualisation, the low latency of flash storage has risen to the challenge.

But flash storage comes in many forms; in all-flash arrays, in hybrid arrays with spinning disk, as server-side PCIe flash. Then there is the alphabet soup associated with flash, MLC, SLC and now TLC.

So, which flash storage should you choose? What type of flash best suits different virtualisation and high-performance workloads? This ComputerWeekly.com guide walks you through all the key decision points of flash storage.

Flash array market roundup: The startups
The startups led the flash array fray from the start and still did when this was written, despite the efforts of the big six. Here we survey the work of the startup vanguard in the flash revolution.

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